The Sun. — London, England, 1838-08-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Conservatives have already commenced their autumnal course of eating and drinking. They can make no impression in the country without it, and we are well aware that a good dinner and nothing to pay for it will always be very attractive. If, too, there be anything in the proverbial lines, " Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits." they are right on another account : they better adapt themselves to their audiences and their audiences to them selves. The first Tory feast of the season was given at Sodbury, in West Gloucestershire, on Tuesday ; and so anxious were the principal performers that " the glori ous meeting" (no doubt some of the yokels were glorious enough) should be duly trumpeted forth, that they actually prepared an account of it themselves, and sent it up to the London Journals of " the right sort," in which it ob tained insertion as " from a correspondent." It will probably not be necessary for them to take this trouble in future, for we dare say the newspapers in question will find it worth while to appoint what we may call reporters in eyre (steno graphs itinerantes) to go the circuit of the country, in order to send up without delay accounts of these " grand Con servative festivals." Whenever a Conservative Member of Parliament can collect round him at a dinner a couple of Conservative justices, a Conservative parson, and a dozen or so of Conservative thaw-bacons, tenants of the said Member and Justices, it constitutes what is termed " a grand Conservative festival." Many of these will probably be got up within the next two or three months, and the pro ceedings will of course be paraded with extraordinary pomp in such worthy records as The Times, Post, and Herald. We shall look out for them, and bestow a few remarks upon them as occasion may offer. The great object of these exhibitions will be to show that there has been a most astonishing re-action in the public mind, ald it will not be the fault of those who preside it the fact be not most completely and incontrovertibly es tahlished. This was the burden of the song at the Sod bury symposium, which we are told was attended by as many members, magistrates, gentry (the magistrates not being gentry,we presume),and "true-hearted yeomanry," as filled no fewer than sixty-eight carriages, including we know not how many taxed and market-carts (for the " honest farmers" were taken, like an apothecary's powder, aliquo vehiculo), lengthening out a procession which, ac cording to the account before us, was welcomed " by the entire population of Sodbury." The whole train must have formed a droll spectacle, and we do not wonder, therefore, that the correspondent who supplied all the details should add that "the chagrin" of the Whig Lord-Lieutenant (who happened to choose that very time for passing through the place) at " the increasing Conservative strength of this division of the county was very apparent." No doubt Lord &grave has scarcely a nail left on his fingers, and all because he would insist upon going through Sodbury at that particular moment. They are excellent judges at Sodbury of the comparative claims and merits of exalted personages. After dinner they coupled the Duke of Wellington and the Duke of Beaufort in the same toast, and not only so, but they put the Duke of Beaufort first. To be sure, they may be both styled heroes of an hundred fights," the one in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, and the ether at Moulsey Hurst and at Roach's dog-pit. The song accom panying the toast should have been— " Ah, sure a pair was never seen," &c. ; but to the Sod huryites a Duke s a Duke, and one Duke as good as another : they make no foolish distinction be tween a Duke who figures in the history of the world and a Duke who figures in the annals of priz--fighters and still more equivocal records. A Conservative dinn-r is nothing without a clergyman to return thanks for the health of the Bishop., &c., and to dissert upon the incalculable advantages of a union between Church and State—advantages which the ministers of the Estab lishment arc most especially bound to acknowledge. Sodbury has to boast of the Rev. Dr. Men, of whom, to our shtinn-, rhni)4,• we know nothing beyond whet we learn from the narr aive of what passed on ths Inc:norab'e occasion. He went beyond all precedent in whit fell from bins regarding Church and State ; with him t e State was quite an insigt:ificant matter, and the Church ail in In fact the State was almost indebted to the Church Lad any existence :—" The Church," he observed, " could stand without the State, but the State must till without the Church." There ore, all who were interested in the State were bound to support the Church, notwithstanding the Church could so well stand alone with out any support. If the State were not to insist upon the due payment of tithes, the Church might, indeed, stand ; but .vitiout its emoluments we do not think that many Dr. Aliens would be found to stand by it. In another part of lt . s speech the Rev. Gentleman told his auditors that the clergy did not attend such " glorious meetings" for the sake of forwarding their " political views, but to pay the I tebt of gratitude which they owed to those who were fighting the battle of the Church." If the Church can stand, even if the State should fall, where is the necessity for any body to fight its battle ? In truth, in the opinion ot . Dr. Allen, and of such as he, the Church and tithes are convertible terms, and the defenders of tithes are the de fenders of the Church, and the defenders of the Church the defenders of tithes. When these crape-sleeved person ages preach out of the pulpit, they fall into the most egre gious and nonsensical contradictions : their absurdities in the pulpit may be often quite as glaring, but there at least they go without comment and without contradiction. The toast of the clergy was appropriately followed by that of " the blue ladies" of West Gloucestershire, meaning, we suppose, the venerable blue-stocking ladies of that part. of the country. We have not had the good or ill for tuae, as the case may be, of hearing of any of them, but for aught we know they may be very learned and very ancient. Every body is aware who are meant by " the white witches of Lancashire," but " the blue ladies" of West Gloucestershire seem likely to obtain a very un enviable degree of notoriety. We are not acquainted with any one of them who has acquired literary celebrity since the days of that distinguished poetess " the Bristol Milk n aid," the worthy rival, though not strictly speaking con temporary, of Stephen Duck, who kept time with his flail to the repetition of his doggrels : " She sang her verses to her milking-pail;. He thrash'd out reams of poems with his flail." . Mr. Codrington and Mr. Master, who never open their mouths in Parliament, seem to have opened their mouths to some purpose at Sodbury, besides the purpose of eating and drinking. They launched out boldly against the Whig Ministers, and somewhat need lessly, in such company, undertook the defence of the Tories. " There was now," said Mr. Codrington, " more necessity than ever for the Conservatives to remain united in he soul, and purpose." How so, unless the assertion that Toryism is so rapidly on the increase be utterly with out foundation "It had been asked (quoth Mr. Master) what had the Conservatives gained this session by their opposition to the Government ?" What was his reply ? That they had gained what most they wanted, office, and the means of dipping their hands into the public purse ? No such thing. "He would answer that they had gained" —what, does the reader conjecture ?—" They had gained the character of consistency !" Not having enjoyed any such character before, they had gained it during the last session by giving way at all points, and acceding to measures which they had no longer the power to resist either by votes or arguments. This is what the inhabitants of Sod bury and its neighbourhood are taught to consider Tory consistency. It is the only kind of consistency the Tories have shown in the last session, and it is the only kind of consistency they are likely to show in the next.—Morn ing Chronicle. It is impossible to estimate too highly the service ren dered to the country at large by Lord Lyndhurst in his powerful and effective exposition on Tuesday night of our commercial relations, and of the character and results of our diplomacy in the four quarters of the globe. The con currence of the highest authority on international law in the sentiments of the second commercial community in the United Kingdom, re-echoed as those sentiments have been from Liverpool, Bristol, and other commercial towns, guarantees, on the part of at least one branch of the Le gislature, the integrity and inviolability of the rights se cured to England by the double protection of her own laws and of her treaties with foreign Powers. The speech of the Noble Lord, tracing the complicated evils of our mer cantile and diplomatic position to the unoffended infraction by Russia of the treaties of Vienna and of the 6th of July, 1827, annihilates the , territorial pretensions of that Power to the south of the Pruth, the Kuban, and the Araxes, and amounts to a judicial declaration of the existing rights of our merchants freely to navigate the rivers of Poland, to trade with the indepepdent muni cipalities of Cracow, Circassia, Algiers, Constantine, Oran, and Senegal, to exercise the right of transit from the Baltic to the Black Sea, from the Black Sea into Central Asia, nd from the Mediterranean to the valuable marts in the interior of Africa. The principals and the accessories in the outrages already committed on the high seas against ur flag, and against the liberties, rights, property, and 1 araeter of our countrymen, are held responsible for their &ts by the highest judicial tribunal in the realm. The 'Noble Lord, in consideration of the lateness of the ses,ion, I ,mited himself to a -" statement of facts," reserving an in t estigation of the " circumstances" attenling them to a n ore suitable occasion than the presentation of a petition. (in the importance of these facts we have frequently had o casion to dilate. During a period of profound peace, and in the zenith of our power, under an Administration in vested by the House of Commons with unlimited confidence, and every required means for the promo t. on of our interests with the rest of mankind, our commerce and manufactures have been obstructed or prohibited with 4,000,000 of Circassians, 21,000,000 of Poles, 25,000,000 of Germans, 10,000,000 of Africans, 8,000,000 of Mexicans, and 4,000,000 of South AmeTi cans. The free intercourse of our merchant vessels with the ports of the Baltic and the Black Sea, of the southern shores of the Mediterranean, of the north-western coast of Africa, of the Gulfs of Mexico and California, of the rivers and estuaries of the Uruguay and the Argentine Republic, has been interdicted by the subordinate autho rities of foreign states, whose acts have been officially re cognised in England previous to their being approved of, or even known, by their own Governments. Agricultural populations to the amount of 70,000,000 of our natural customers, debarred from their guaranteed rights of free dom of intercourse and exchange with England, serve to promote the rival industry of Russia, Prussia, France, and the United States, whose concerted system of restrictions enables them already to undersell our own manufactures not alone in third markets, but even in the British Islands. If the result of these restrictions in Europe alone had been, up to the sth of January of this year, a de crease in our annual exports of 12,500,0001. sterling, a diminution in •our imports of 2,500,0001., and of internal revenue to upwards of 2,000,0001., feeble indeed is the prospect, under the present Government, of a restoration of our foreign influence, considering that it is since that period that the paper blockades of France have excluded us from the markets of South America, that our commerce with Persia and Central Asia is endangered to the amount of 5,000,000/. sterling ; that in addition to the augmented expenditure arising from the mal-administration and defence of the Canadas, we have to protect our Indian empire threatened on the West, North, and East, whilst our naval forces are dispatched on the one side up the Per sian Gulf, and on the other to Canton ? We shall take an early opportunity of pointing out the wholly erroneous statement of the First Lord of the Admiralty with regard to our naval defences, and of laying before the public the commercial importance of those populations in the three Continents, enumerated by Lord Lyndhurst as our mer cantile allies, and who have the good fortune to claim, in common with the commercial communities of Great Bri tain, so distinguished an advocate of their rights.—Tinzes. The Whig Ministers of our youthful Queen having es caped the perils of the late Session, through the extraor dinary courtesy and forbearance displayed towards them and their delinquencies, in both domestic and foreign policy, by the Conservative leaders in Parliament, are making just such a return to their political preservers as was to be ex pected of a faction lost to all sense of shame and decency, in setting on their Journals to abuse and revile their bene factors—the accommodating and compromising Conserva tives, who stepped between the desponding culprits and the doom which public opinion had long since pronounced, and shielded them from the country's indignation. The Minis terial Journals only echo in their abuse of the indulgent Conservatives, what the Irish dictator of the enslaved Ca binet vociferates in the choicest Billingsgate of renewed agitation in Dublin, against the men, who, having in their bands the means of delivering the British empire from the most degrading yoke under which a great nation ever suf fered, abused their strength, and threw away their opportu nity in weak and foolish attempts to conciliate antagonists who could neither be safe friends, nor honourable foes. Hence it is that O'Connell still grasps the patronage of Ireland ; hence it is that his Ministerial vassals are still permitted to inflict upon the country that fatal dominion which de presses all its interests at home, and covers it with humilia tion and igaom'ny abroad. It is true that the Duke of Welington, who so often interposed the protection of his great name between the delinquent Ministry and destruc tion, at length adrritted he was wrong in so doing ; but, un fortunately, he male that discovery s late in the session, that his repentance produced no practical benefit to the country. Sir Robert Peel made no such candid admission ; but if the Duke's policy de4erved self-condemnation, cer tainly that of the Right Hon. Baronet cannot escape cen sure, for Lord John Russell was not less indebt, d to his indulgence in the Commons than Viscount Melbourne was to the Duke of Wellington's protecting interference in the Lords. The "dry-nursing" the Queen's Ministers was, during a considerable portion of the Session, the worthy oc cupation of "her Mejesty's opposition"—for which, in the taunts and revilinga of the little leader of the Whig. Radical forces, and the renewed agitation of O'Connell and his satentes, they have received their reward, Never was there so strong a minority in the House of Commons as that cf last session which so tompletely disappointed public expecfa ion. Giving, as we do, an in dependent support to Conservative principles, we dare tell professed Conservatives, however high their station, what we thick of their conduct, when, forgetting the high tone of political and religious sentiment with which they re sponded to the national feeling on the hustings and at public meetings, they tamper with great principles, and display a suspicious readiness to compromise a noble cause. The fantastic pranks of unconstitutional power which the vice regal puppet of the mendicant agitator has been playing in Ireland ought alone to have borne down any Ministry to the earth, and must inevitably have destroyed the Mel bourne Administration if the wickedness of the Whigs bad not derived impunity and protection from the weakness of the policy pursued by the Parliamentary Tories. The Irish Conservative Members shamefully abandoned during the past Session the cause of their own country ; and the English Conservative leaders, with the exception of Lord . Lyndhurst, seemed to think the extraordinary doings of the Marquis of Norma* as far beyond their cognizance or control as if they had occurred in China or Japan, A tenth of the unconstitutional acts committed in Ireland within the last three year; roused the whole British nation against the authority of James 11. But our Protestant and-Conser vative patriots at the present day are men of such " con summate prudence" that we cannot help thinking the Stuart dynasty would still have occupied the Throne, if the Protestant patriotism of the seventeenth century had been made of the same sort of stuff as that in the nine teenth. At no other period of our history since the revo lution could it have been announced that a man encrusted with such a character as that of the Irish Agitator, and who had just received sentence as a culprit on the floor of the House of Commons, was offered a high judicial ap pointment by the Queen's Ministers without producing such a burst of indignation in Parliament as must have driven those panders to turbulent ambition on the seat of justice from their dishonoured places. But we cannot be surprised at anything when we recollect that there were Tories who, joined in whitewashing this man touching the notorious " Carlow job," and to whom he declared in the first enthusiastic expression of his gratitude that he would always take off his bat to them whenever he met them. What does he now say in reference to Tory conduct on Election Committees ?These are his words in his latest address to the Corn Exchange conspirators :—Stealing,afterhis own candid fashion, and mangling with his own peculiarly bad taste, a passage in one of the speeches of the celebrated advo cate Curran, he thus applies it to the " perjured bigotry" of Tory Committees—" The bigotry that could show itself as it has done, in reference to Ireland, must have risen by its own putrescence. As the human body, after passing to a state of putrefaction, only rises as it rots, so rose to the top thebigotryofEngland from the stench and impurity ofits own foetid dregs." This is now the language of the man whom Ministers worship, whom some Conservatives would conciliate, and who, through the baseness of one party and the concessional policy of the other, has contrived, with the talents of a mob-flatterer and the energies of a mounte bank, to make himself the master of the destinies of the British empire. It is only in such a position we consider this man and his acts of any importance. The more con temptible in point of character and real talent the dema gogue is, the more portentous a sign of declining empire is it, that such a man should attain political ascendancy within the realm of England. But whatever influence he may exercise over the minds of Whig or Tory poli ticians, it is some consolation to know that his popular power in this country is gone for ever. He may talk loudly and pompously of his new plan of English agitation to his Irish dupes, but he is him self conscious that he has lost all hold upon the popular mind of England. The good sense of the mass of the people of this country is not always proof against the delu sions of artful demagogues, but there is a sturdy honesty among the people which makes them spurn with contempt the detected trickster who has pandered to their passions only for the most sordid purposes. The betrayer of the factory children—the denouncer of the working classes — the opponent of a Poor-law fur his starving countrymen — the slanderer of British women, may assume whatever popular cant he pleases, but he will never again be listened to with patience, much less with admiration, by any large assemblage of people, out of St. Giles's, within the four seas of Great Britain. Let him send his deputation of 200 agitators to England, as he threatens to do, if they come to collect the tribute-money for him (the great object of his present agitation), they will return with " a beggarly account of empty boxes." But why will he not venture himself at their head? Why will he not make an other tour as a " ministerial missionary," to preach down the House of Lords ? He knows the people of this country too well to try that experiment or anything like it again. He who was the friend and admirer of Papineau and his fellow-traitors until they fell into misfor tune, and then turned upon them with the ready treachery that tramples on the fallen, can be trusted by no party, and m to ust be despised by all, with the exception of the Wales, baseness a re recommendation. e n d b a l tio He who who m u, such designate edto b E r o u g t , o " d i is s now their e t h o e ir populacepoli ieal s sooracle lost sleet base,in n0 00 t ( y, to ; manhood—so n o o v r n ali n y and politically deg ra d e d, as to accept him as their political monitor and guide. He who called the Duke of Welling ton a " stunted corporal," and a " swine-herd general," will not find the population of any part of England so much like a " swinish multitude" as to feed at his agitation trough upon such garbage as he would place before them. Let us give a specimen of the disgusting and malignant non sense of which the new scheme of agitation is to be cern- pounded. "It was a deplorable thing that Ireland ever produced him (the Duke of Wellington). .It would be written upon his grave that his ark of glory floated upon Irish blood, and that he used his power only to crush his countrymen, and the engines of his success." This is the gratitude of O'Connell to the Duke, for throwing open to him the doors of the British Parliament, and giving him a position in the country which he has invariably used to prove how much the Duke's liberality was misap• plied ; and for this he is to have concession after conces sion, even to the extent of establishing for his purposes the " normal schools of political agitation." It is true he would not accept them on the terms upon which they were offered in the last Session, because he expects that the re presentatives of the Parliamentary cause will go one step further in the concessional line next Session, and grant them, on his own terms, to ensure the peace of Ireland ! To think of ensuring the tranquillity of Ireland by placing new machinery of agitation in the hands of O'Connell, is much the same as ensuring the farmer's rick-yard from being burned by placing a firebrand in the hands of an in cendiary madman. Can he want resources in the agitation I:ne wl o, the moa • It that P.rliament i sdosed, not only recommences his reign of turbulence in Ireland, but threatens this country with an invasion of 200 itinerant agitators ? This is " conciliation" with a vengeance !—Let them come, and the factory slaves and Englishwomen will give them an appropiate welcome.—Morning Herald. The Whigs are pleased to boast that as the Session opened with a Whig Administration, so it has closed with a Whig Administration, and they seem to think that this is a matter of legitimate triumph. It can be so, however, only upon the supposition that to have retained office, no matter under what circumstances—no matter under what disgraces—is a triumph. We do not think so, and if we considered the possession of office ten times as great an ad tage as we do think it, we should, nevertheless, for the honour of the party to which we belong, prefer that it re mained out of office for a hundred years to come, rather than it possessed official power, combined with the dis graces which, during the last Session only, the Whigs have suffered. There is no imaginable state of necessity, not even the last extremity of sheer physical hunger, that could, in our opinion, excuse any set of men for continuing to receive the wages of office, while balled and mastered as the Whigs have been in their Prrliamentary projects during the Session which has just concluded. It is only upon the assumption that all sense of honour and of shame has passed away from them, and that they care no more about the cleanness of their Ministerial character than the hog that gorges at its trough cares about the cleanness of its victuals, that we can account for the im pudent boast of having ended the Session as they began it —in office. Why, if Mr. Deputy Peacock had been Prime Minister, Mr. Under-Sheriff Pearson leader of the House of Commons, and Mr. Joseph Ady Chancellor of the Exchequer, they might also have worked their way through the Session upon the same terms. If men can persuade themselves, while holding the position of Ministers of the Crown, to yield to whatever party happens to be at the moment ponetful enough to beat them , the w on d er h e not that they continue Ministers, but how, except by the circumstance of their natural death, they shall ever cease to be Ministers. It is true that the Whigs end the Session as they began it, in the possession of Downing -street ; but how long would they have stood the brunt of the Session, we should like to know, if they had not suffered Sir Robert Peel to do what he pleased with the Canada Bill? A division of the House of Com mons did not indeed take place against them—but w hy ? They saw it coming, and prudently gave up what their Conservative opponents contended for. This they did under the most abject circumstances. Lord J. Ruisell made a speech as thrasonical as it was tedious and stupid, in which he threatened that if the plans he had proposed regarding. Canada were not agreed to, the Ministers would throw the responsibility of the Government and of Cana dian difficulties upon those who opposed him. Sir Robert Peel answered, that as to that he might do as he pleased ; but that his plans would not be agreed to, and must be al tered. What was the Noble Leader's conduct then ? Was it in a political and Ministerial sense dignified, or was it dasterdly ? We affirm, and the world knows, that it was •the latter. The Minister would not venture upon a divi sion, for he knew he would have been beaten ; but after all his mighty threatenings he gave way, and continued Minis . ter, while Sir Robert Peel compelled him to alter his plane, and to obey the voice of those who were stronger than he. This is the way thct the Whigs contrived to continue Minis ters at the commencement of the Session. Is it anything to boast of ? Can brute impudence go further than they go, who boast of having continued Ministers, when such crawling abjectness was the means by which they avoided being turned out ? This was at the beginning of the Session. In the middle of it they swallowed the Tory Irish Tithe Bill, because, according to their own confession, they had not the power to carry the sort of Bill which they preferred. But they did not resign as other men have done when they have found thernaelves unable to carry the measures which they approved—oh no I they knew better—they adopted the measure of their opponents, and remained to boast that they concluded the Session as they began it—in the posi tion of Ministers of the Crown I The end of the session came, and was marked with their accustomed Ministerial success. Canada affairs again came under discussion, and in the House of Lords a Bill was brought in, against which the Prime Minister not only spoke, but spoke in the live liest terms of indignation. It, however, passed the second reading in spite of him ; and then notwithstanding all his in dignant opposition, he contrived to recollect himself, and within 24 hours came down to the House of Lords, and in formed their Lordship that the Government would do all that he had protested against the evening before as unnecessary and impolitic ! This is the head of that Administration which boasts that as it began so it ends the Session, in the posses sion of office ! How could it be otherwise, when this most accommodating Ministry, instead of resigning when it is beaten, does what those who have beaten require to be done ? And yet the parasites of such a Ministry as this have the disgusting effrontery to make boast that the Whigs have the giving away of excisemen's places and the like. So the obsequious lackey, who is paid for being kicked, has more shillings to give away than he who resents the imping ing of the offensive toe like a man. We give the Whigs joy of their proud position.—Morning Post. • In a second edition of yesterday's Advertiser we pub lished Mr. O'Connell's speech to his constituents, at a meeting held in the Royal Exclange of Dublin. The meeting was convened by a requisition from Mr. O'Con nell, expressive of a desire to give to his constituents an ac count of his stewardship, and devise measures to obtain " full justce for Ireland." Such being the objects of the requisition, a deep interest was excited, and a numerous and crowded assembly was the consequence. In the speech of Mr. O'Connell will be found an enthusiastic expression of delight on nein breathing his native air, of exultation at the defeat of Tory Orangemen by the electors of Ireland in the choice of representatives, a denunciation of Elec tion Committees, a disquisition on Joint-stock Banks, combinations of workmen, the voluntary principle, the rejection of the Irish Corporation Bill, and the abolition of negro apprenticeship, all of which are, no doubt, very important topics ; but they are not those upon which the people of Ireland felt most anxious to be informed in reference to the last Session of Parliament. They comprise, however, the whole of the subjects on which Mr. O'Connell deemed it necessary to give an explanation. The second object of the requisition—the digesting of a plan to procure justice for Ireland—was but slightly alluded to, a full explanation being reserved for another meeting, to be held on Saturday, when it is pro posed to lay the basis of an Association, and make pre parations to send delegates with a petition for " Justice" to the Queen. Mr. O'Connell, as usual, expressed him pressed himself most eloquently and patriotically on the subjects embraced in his speech ; but even though he hinted the ultimate necessity of a Repeal of the Union, the Meeting appeared to feel something to be wanting to a per fecttkocereyei tdsin thang , two thehw o predecessors, ss t i v aot r ni e s,f a p lc ro i may explanation The S completees failure, and no sophistry, however pla us ibl e, w - expl anat i on. I t i s to b e h ope d t h at t h e p l an o f fu ill ofbh elasshranboereee past.d a e finite and o vince the people of Ireland to the cont rary . The con vince of the people has been tested to th e u t most, and it is dangerous to encroach farther on it. Ireland is at present tranquil ; but the tranquillity proceeds not from content with the Legislature, or the laws, but from confi dence in the Executive. The very rumour of a Tory Mi nistry, like the sound of the voice loosing the avalanche, might-precipitate a most terrific catastrophe. When the dissolution of the General Association was proposed, we protested against the proposition, as calculated to deprive the people of a centre of action, before any of the objects of the Association was achieved. Our anticipation s have been but too fully verified. The people of Ireland achieved a glorious triumph in the return of professedly Liberal.re presentatives ; but they are in as bad a position after the close of the Session as before, and now it is proposed to revive the Association, which ought never to have been dissolved until its objects were obtained. Was it necessary to give the people further evidence of the futility o f relying on any exertions but their own for the accomplishment of their rights ? It is time that such trifling should cease, and we trust that when the next Association be formed, it will appreciate its position and its powers, and not dissolve till the consummation of its purpose.—Morning Advertiser. • At length the labours of the Pens io n Let Select Com mittee have produced their fruit—such as it is in quantity and in quality—and the Pension List Amendment Bill having passed through ail its stages, has received the Royal Assent. We have Wive us the Report of the " Select Corionittee on Pensions ;" by the recommendations of which the alterations effected in the Pension List hav e been principally made, and on the guiding principles of w hi c h the 811 now passed has been bared. The Report does net THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1838. recommend such a purgation of the Pension List as public opinion undoubtedly 'required ; but it does something in the way of reformation, both as regards the delinquencies of the past and the regulations which are to guide courtly reward in future—for which, under all the circumstances of the case, we must endeavour to be as thankful as we can. The Report recommends the application of a principle which has been acted upon in the Bill, viz., that certain noblemen in narrow circumstances, but deriving incomes from public appointments, shall not receive incomes at the same time from the Pension List, in order to sustain the respectability of their titles. It also suggests, that a number of ladies of rank, who have been in the habit of drawing an annual income from the Pension List—either for some mys terious public services, which are perfectly unintelligible, or which will not bear the searching probe of public in vestigation—are no longer to receive an equivocal reward, injurious to their own reputation as well as to the public purse. The Report, and the Bill founded upon it, also extinguish the incomes of another class of ladies of rank, who—without any especial blame to themselves—have re ceived from the jobbing and profuse partizanship of the various hordes of official men who have up to ,this hour devoured the strength of the country—yearly incomes from the Pension List, while their husbands are either in possession of large property, or invested with large official emoluments. This reduction every reasonable man must approve. The Pension List Report has moreover done good indirectly as well as directly—by exhibiting itself (although too faintly) as a representative of the unanimous voice of public opinion. The moral influence of that mighty agent has been felt in this instance, and a body of female pensioners connected with the aristocracy, and de riving up to the present time money from the Pension List, in justification of which no plea can be maintained—have voluntarily, and we must say to their credit (to the amount of twenty - one), relinquished all future claim upon the pub lic purse. Indeed, it is not so much the amount of the saving effected by the Pension List Amendment Bill, which is certainly comparatively trivial, as the moral good which the purgation of it is calculated to effect by the ex hibition of a better public example. In this respect its definition of the guiding p r i nc ipl es by w hi c h pen sions must in future be granted, is far more beneficial in point of exemple than the actual retrenchment which it has effected as regards the past. The Report con cludes with recommending that pensions shall, in future, only be granted for such meritorious service as may be either too conspicuous to be gainsaid, or is readily admitted by public opinion. We trust to see this principle carried out with due and wholesome rigour. We trust that pen sions will alone be granted to desert—either naval or mili tary—profes:ional or scientific. We trust, in short, that merit will, in future, be the only introduction to the Pension List. Unless this principle be adopted, the fund altogether must be deemed a u.;eless and mischievous contrivance for fostering Court servility, and raising an army of Court sti pendiaries, who will be always ready to defend courtly abuses for the sake of the bread with which they are fed. Unless the reward bestowed be unequivocal, as respects associates, and intelligible as respects its concurrence with public opinion, it is injurious at once to the public purse, to the public interest, and to the individual on whom it is conferred.—Morning Advertiser. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of last Evening.) SUGAR. —The transactions in the B. P. Market have been ex tremely limited this week, Grocers as well as RAners have i:urchased very cautiously, particularly of the ors descriptions ; importers, however, generally are not inclined to submit to lower prices, and tine yellow sorts have supported their former currency. St. Kitts of pretty good quality may be bought at 53s Gd; Dominica with a good deal of colour, have been sold at 563, very fine sorts range from 625. a 63s ; at auction 131 hhds. I3arbadoes have been offered, when only 50 Mids. found buyers at previous rates, these were of fine quality and brought 62s a 635, the remainder were taken in at 5Ss a 62s for mid to good. This afternoon prices is lower than on Friday last for brown and mid yellow descriptions, but good and fine sorts are not above 6d cheaper, the supply being rather short. The grocers have purchased sparingly of both the common and better descriptions of refined goods, and a reduction on previous rates of 6d to Is has been submitted to; sissall sales of Lumps rather under the standard have been made at 75s to 75s Gd, and passing at 765. This afternoon small sales of double Crushed mace at 34s to 34s 33 ; the grocers still come forward cautiously. MArhirtus.-1,824 bags at auction sold heavily, brown and low yellow descriptions is and good yellow sorts 6d under previous prices, ord foxy of the former went at 44s to 46s Gd, the latter low to mid 503 6d to 533, good mid and good 54s to 563 ' and a few lots o f ord g re y at 51s ; there has b e en an ar rival of 7,196 bags; for public competition on Tuesday 2,000 bags are declared. This afternoon.there was little business doing, and 4,392 bags at auction went 6d under previous rates, fair strong grey sold at sls a sls 6d, mid yellow 52s 61 a 53s 6d, good mid and good 54s 61 a 563, better not quite fine 57s a 57s 6d. EAST INDlA—Previous rates have boon supported. Bengal, 127 hhds 202 bags at public sale ; ord to mid yellowish brown at 43s to 49s 6d, two lots 41s 6d to 425, the latter went at 633 to 63s 6d for good, and 65a for fine white. In Manilla there has been nothing done by private treaty. FOREIGN.—The market continues in a dull state; in Brazil importers will not submit to lower prices. White flavannah is offered Is to 2s under previous rates; 500 boxes by private treaty, for good quality 39a accepted; in brown and yellow sorts nothing has been done. MOLASSES.—West India are not offered on lower terms, fine Demerara at 26s per cwt, and fine Barbadoes at 27s 6d. COFFEE.-There has been an increased demand from the grocers for all descriptions of British Plantation, and an ad vance on last week's rates of 2s has been obtained for fine ord to mid qualities, and is for ord and good ord sorts ; the pub lic sales have consisted of 469 casks, 7 barrels, 115 bags, all of which found eager buyers, Jamaica mid at 109 s 6d to 114 s 6d, low mid 105 s to 106 s 6d, good to fine fine ord. 95s to 104 s 6d ; Dominica fine fine ord. 1003 to 103 s Od, good ord 94s 6d, low mid. 105 s to 106 s ad ; Demerara good and fine ord 91s. to 965; the arrivals continue to come in slowly. East India descriptions with certificate have been taken more freely for home consumption at improved prices; Ceylon by private contract, 95s 6d paid for good ord, and 93s for ord. country damaged; at auction 330 bags sold with spirit, establishing an advance on the rates of the last auction of 1s ; Mocha, for small parcels the grocers have been compelled to pay 2s to 3s advance, cleanly garbled descriptions have brought 100 s, and for a small quantity of fine yellow 128 s has been paid. This afternoon the auctions consisted of 1,884 bags Brazil, and 68 casks 462 bags British Plantation ; good and fine ord Brazil at 37s 8d to 41s, about 6 lots sold at 37s to 38s for good ord. Dutch brought a further advance of 2s, low mid Demerara selling at 108 s, good ord ragged 93s 6d to 100 s. Jamaica went at previous rates, low mid 105 s. RUM, BRANDY, AND 11OLLANDS.-For Rum there conti nues to be a good demand from both the home trade and shippers, and rather higher prices have been obtained for Leewards, the sales of which amount to 350 puns, proofs to 3 per cent over-proof at 2s 10d to 2s I Id, 5 to 8 over 3s to 3s Id, 10 to 12 over 3s 2d to 3s 3d, 13 to 22 over 3s 4d to 3s 9d ; 25 to 28 over, 3s 103 to 4s Id ; 30 to 34 over, 4s 63 to 4s 7d. The sales in Jamaica have been 300 puncheons at stiffer prices ; 30 Li 34 per cent have commanded 4s 5d a 4s 6d ; 35 to 37 over, 4s 7d a 4s 9d ; 38 to 40 over, 4s 103 ass. Brandy has supported last week's rates. Geneva in good demand, at previous prices. British Corn Spirits re main at lOs 2d. young Hyson and Imperial there have been a good deal of business doing at profits of lid. to 2d per lb on the late auctions for Bohea, Twankays, and other descriptions the de mand has become limited, but the importers will not sell but at small profits on last sale's rates. TALLOW. —The market continues to improve ; Petersburg Yellow Candle, first quality, has advanced to 48s to 48s 6d ; for delivery in the last three months holders ask higher prices, and a good deal of business has been done at 47s to 47s 6d. SPICES.—The demand for Black Pepper has greatly in cased, aid to 3icl paid for common and good light Sumatra, 4d for good light Malabar, and 41d for half heavy; For Pi mento there has been a good demand, and stiffer rates have been obtained. For Cinnamon in small parcels 3d to 4d ad vance on the rates of the late auctions continues to be paid. Nutmegs were sold at 4s to 4s 4d for fair limed consumers. East India Ginger has been in steady request at former rates ; 620 bags Bengal at auction sold at 17s to 21s for low to good mid quality. Cassia Lignea is not wanted, either for home consumption or export. Mace and Cloves are held firmly. SALTPETRE. —A fair demand has prevailed for Rough by private contract, and rather higher prices have been obtained ; at public sale 850 baskets Egyptian sold very dear, refraction 13 per cent of good colour but of rather soft quality at 23s to has been in good requ est at 29s 6d in hhds, and 308 in brls. 23s 6d ; at present no auction is declared. English Refined Rim-800 bags Bengal went rather dearer, good white at 16s 6d, one lot 17s ; Carolina continues in request at the rates quoted, and for export at 30s per cwt. W ooL—The extensive public sales commenced on Tuesday; the total quantity declared was 12,000 bales Austalian and Van Diemen's Land, and 338 bags Spanish ; the former, amounting to 5,600 bales, have been sold at rates fully equal to those established last month, the latter went at very good prices. Prices of English continue firm. Isinioo.—There was a good and general demand for East India, profits on the last quarterly sale of 2d to 3d were ob tained for the general run of old goods, and 4d per lb. for picked lots. ()mg.—The market for common descriptions of Fish Oils s this afternoon again extensive h a s assumed a more lively appearance ; a good d eman d h as b ee n experienced for Scal ; pale has advanced t o 34/ , b rown done at 82. forfirst i pu y bc _L sale ie ed hasand yellow 271 lOs to 32L Cod has sold to a fair ext en t at 361, which is also rather higher. In Southern a f a i r b us i ness has sold been steadilyd ne ; and l 350 a t stiffer rates, and brought 241 to 27/ for l ow to fine. S p w e e r nt m so ad vanced, and the transactions have been at 28s.— Rape is 2 3 to 3 s dearer, and a brisk demand h as b expe rienced, 42s paid for File, and 41s f or brown.— oikeeeLla has b e en taken more freely ; and Gallipoli has ad vance d to 55L ; com mon tuns qu a atit liis sorts are also higher.—East I n di a C ocoa Nut held for late rate?, but the operations have been limited. Cocoa. —llrithh; Pim tation —tl i e rates previously established have been supported. This afternoon there was not much demand for West India, ald 171 bags • • T rtn•dad at auction only partly sold rather cheaper, common grey to fair dark red at s 4 is to 44s 6d. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, ASSURANCE COMPANIES,&c. &c. ' LONDON, FRIDAY, AUG. 17. 4umbcr Dividend Price of per CANALS. , per Shares. Annum. Paid. Share 1,766 7 pet cent. Ashton and Oldham...Average 97/. 18s. sh. 135 1,082 4/. Ashby-cle-le-Zouch Average Ilf.l. sh. 65 1,260 Basingstoke lOO/.611. 5 1,005 5/. Brecknock and Abergavenny 150 e sh. 100 6,000 I-16sh. 91 Os. Birmingham, 1-16th share 811. & 711. 220 i 000 Ditto and Liverpool Junct...M eh. 100 pd 241 600 31. Bridgewater and Taunton ....100/ sh. all pd 64 400 4/. Chelmer and Illackwater 100/. sh. 102 500 481. C yventry 100/. sh. 745 4,545 Croydon 2,0601 41. 03. Dudley . ~ 100/ sh. 83 600 141. Derby 100/ sh 133 20,000 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne ............ 41/.135. 4d .pd 30 3,5751 :V. Ellesmere and Chester Average 1331. sla. 77 231 46/. Erewash 1001 sh 700 1,297 28/. Forth and Clyde Average 4.001.165. th. 570 1,600 12/. Grand Junction 1141/ sh. 202 2,8491 11. Grand Union 1001. sh 25 11,500 Grand Surrey 0,0001. 4!. percent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOOl 83 3'96 Grand Western 100/. sh. all pd 600 13/.125. Sd. Glamorganshire, Average cost 172/. 13s. 4d. 230 749 10z. Grantham 150/. sh. 203 6,233 2/. Os. Huddersfield Average 57/. 6s. 6d. sh. 37 100 Kensington 100 sh. all ixl. 10 2%128 11. Is. Kennet rod Avon, Average 39/. ISs. 10d. sh. 251 2,8971 24/. Leeds and Liverpool 100!. sh. 670 5157 131. Leicester l4Ol. sh. 220 1,897 61. Os. Leicester and Northampton... Aver 0/. 10s. 91 2.400 le/. Monmouthshire 1001. sh. 20) 150 10/. Melton Mowbray 100/. eh. 200 500 251. Mersey and Irwell 1001. sh. 560 3.000 11. 10s. Macclesfield 1001. sh. all pd. 52 247 17/. Neath Mash. 325 2,400 5/. Peak Forest Avei.ge about 781. sh. 104 1,418 12s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/.162.8d. sh. 161 5,669 Gl. per cent. riochdale Average 85/. eh. 711 500 8/. Shropshire /'251. sh. 138 800 9/. 10s. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 151 i 3,6001. 41 per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 121. 10s. sh. 111 700 40/. Stafford and Worcester 140/. sh. 710 500 91. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 7x30 300 9!. Stourbrklge 3,647 2/. Os. Stratford-on-Avon ...Average 791.95. Od. sh. 40 593 15/. Swansea 100/. sh. 250 3,762 11. Iss. Severn and Wye and Railway-Av 351. sh. 35 2,600i5h. 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey , 1 share 100!. sh. 600 8,149 1,0005h. 1 16/. 00 ; :sh. Warwick and Birmingham 1001. sh. 281 1,0 080 15s. Warwick and Na.pton lOO/.sh. 200 6,000 41.05. Worcesl,r and Bi r mingham...Av.7B/.Bs. sh. 791 5,000 255. Wilts an, Berks .. Average 671. 10s. Bd. sh. 23 SOO 31. N l ‘ , yrley and Essington 1254 sh 75 126 110/. sh. 22 905 la• Wey and Arun 1 DOCKS. . L 600& •Iool.sh. 56 3p. c Commercial 1,06515 h• .1 East and West India Stock 108 3,238,3101/. 555. p.ct. London Stock 601 Ditto Bonds lOl 2,209 21. 19s. Bristol 68 5 324/. Si. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll3 1,352,752 5 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 102 3 5000 M 43 per cent. Ditto Bonds , lO2 202.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years lOO3 2,500 Deptford l'ier "01. sh. 20/. psi 11 BRIDGES. 1,600 ICs. Hammersmith 5Ol. sh. 221 7,231 Southwark, Old 1,700 1/. 153. Ditto, New, of 73 r, cent. 5O!. sh. 14 5,000 Waterloo • lOO/. sh. 3 5,000 18s. Bd. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/. 6O/. pd 19 5,000 16s. 4d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 401. pd 173 60,000!. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds llB 5,948 178 Vauxhall Av crake 701. 10s. 3d. sh. 23 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 3110 s Albion 5001. sh. 50/. pd 60 50,000 [ s ln e , r , c ir, t l Alliance,British & Foreign 100/. sh. 103/. pd 143 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. sh. 5/. pd 63 24,000 11. per sh. Atlas 1,200 3sh. Si. Birmingham 1 ire 250 1. sh . 55/. p d 1073 20,000 41. per cent. British Fire 250!. sh 501. pd 40 12,000 61. percent. British Commercial 50/. sh. 5/. pd 5e 5,000 5/. per cent. Clerical, Medi eal,&c. Life, ICol.sh. 2/10s pil 441, 4,000 2/ 108 County 1001 sh. 10/. psi 403 20,000 ss. Eagle 200 r 5 per cent./ Economic Lite lOOO/ sh. 250/. pd 375 /and 301 bs. 2,271 223. percent. European Li.... eO/. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 2/. pd I; 1,000,005/. 7/. per ct. Glob , . 20,000 W. Guardian lOO/. sh. 2701 pd 353 40,000 6s. lid. Hope 50/..11 5!. pd 51 2,400 5/. 7s. lid. Imperial Fire 5001. oh. 50/. pd 120 7,500 9s. Imperial isle 100/. sh. 101. pd 103 13,453 4/. per cent. Indemnity Marine 1001. all. 81. pd '23 2,020 3/ lOs Kent Fire 50/. sh. all pd 82 3/. Ditto Life. 79 10,000 16s. Law Life 1001. sh. 10/. psi 251 5,00 u 10s. London, Fire 25/. oh. 121. 10s. pd se 3,900 10s. Londor, Ship .si. ah. 121. 10s. pd 16 1,000,0001. ... ..... Minerva Life 100/. sh. 30,000 5/. per cent. Palladium Lite 501. sh. 2/. pd 218 s 01 50,000 4/. per cent. Protector File 2O/. sh. 21. pd 17s Od 2,500 11. Provident Lane lOOl. sh. 101. pd 'lO 100,000 ss. Rock Life .01. sh. 11. pd 7 689,220/ 5/. per cent. Royal Exchange Stoels... 2253 6,000 5 per cent. University Lies. 'oo/. sh. 5/. pd el 50,000 4 per eent. United Kingdom Life 1001. sh. 5/. pd 73 JOINT STUCK BANKS 25,000 8 per cent. A grit. and Comm. of Ireland 25/. sh. 101. pd 5 ; 000 Atistralsia 10,,00 10 per cent. Bank of Birmingham 5ll. sh. 101. pa 13 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 31,000 5 per cent. London amt Westminster...lool sh. 201. pd 233 60,009 5/. London Joint Stock 50/. sh. 10/. lei 12 .1,000 4 per cent. Lancester..„..... ....... ... ........ 100/. oh. f - ,01. pd 30 25,000 Li veri•ooi 1001 sh. 10/. psi 231 100,000 73 per cent Manchester and Liverpool} 501. sh. 15/ pd 2J District 20,000 7 per cent. Manchester 1001. sh. 25/ pd 27 20,000 Provincial Bank of Ireland 100/. sh. 25/. pd 42 (0, , (:0 National Bank of Ireland 5l!. sh. 173/. pd Hi 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. -100/. eh. 35/. pd 343 10,000 Gloucestershire 5O/. sh. 10/. pd 20 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 50/. eh. 5/. pa 9 GAS LIGHT AN i) COKE COMPANIES. 2,501) 1! Os Od Bath 2Ol. sh. IC!. psi 24 5,000 British 4O/. sh. 101. lid 211 5,000 {s a l iir jr3cs.ets.l Ditto Provincial 20/. sh. 19 pd 221 928 5/ lOs Birminghain 5O/. sh. 9S 1,250 2l Os Bristol 9 0/. sh. 36 1,500 3! lOs Brighton 2Ol. sh. 1 1 750 31 les Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 18/. pd 9 2,471 43 per cent. Brighton General 201. sh. all pd 17 5,000 54. Continental Consolidated 75/. 621/.pd 71, 1,000 10/. - City or London .................1001. sh. all pd 199 1,000 6/. Ditto, New lOOl. sh. 00/. pc! 114 • 1,000 4/.los. Equitable 5O/. pd 204 10,000 2f per cent. Imperial 800 5/. per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. eh. 201. pa 20 2,350 61. per cent. Independent 3O/. sh. all pd 49 9,000 31. per cent. Phoenix 50/. sh. 39/. pd 221 1,000 4/. per cent. Ratc1iff............., ................ 100/. oh. 801. pd 58 4,000 South Metropolitan 5O/. sh. 10/. pd 17 6,200 5/. per cent. United General 5O/. sh. 46/. pd 29,1 240 5/. per cent. Warwick 50/. sh. 50 400 5/. per cent Wakefield 25/. sh. 221 2,000 3/. Westminster Chartered 6,000 12s. Ditto New 860 Yarmouth 201. sh. 191. pd 9 WATER WORKS. 4,900 Ps. Birmingham 251. eh. 25/. pd 214 4,434 61. East London lOO/ sh. lf 0 3,500 21 10s Grand Junction ....Average 11/. 13s. 40. sh. 591 2,000 2/. Kent 100/. sh. 43 372 10/. Liverpool !tootle 220/ sh. 3::6 1,500 2/ lOs Now River London Bridge I,VaterAnnui ties 591 6,186 1/ 15s Manchester and Salford lOOl. sh. 51 1,000 4 per cent. South London 100/. sh. 87 8,294 4/, West Middlesex ....Average 63/. 12s. 9d. sh. 95 1,300 1114 s YorIRONk BuildßAing IL CoWAYS. . Lessee P r op 100/ sh 35 6,300 Birmingham and Derby 4O/. Pd 32 9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester 15,r 110 Bristol and Exeter 1001. sh. 15 pd H.; 060 Calcutta and Saugur 50/. oh. V. pd 0i 7,500 Cheltenham and G.Western 100/. sh: 12•;l. ci 3,000 Clarence lOO/. sh. 1001. lel 40 1'2,000 8,000 ... ...... Dublin and Kilkenny 100/. sh. 24 pd 03 60,000 Eastern Counties 25/. oh. 734 pd 6 Grand Junction 100/. sh. Val. pi 181 f Great North of England l3/. Pd 9 5 0410 Great Western lOOl. sh. 654 lid 78 2,000 ••....... Hartlepool 100/. sh. 1001. p 2 100 0,000 ..„,„„ Hull and Selby 501 sh. 156 tad 91 10,00 e Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 51. pd 2,100 31. per cent. Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 05 1,500 11.55. Leicester and Swannington ....501. sh. all pd '753 5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester...lo( /.sli. 100/. psi 195 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares "51. pd 61 36,000 ... ...... London and Brighton 5O/. sh. 11/. pd 81 12,000 London and Blackwall 50!. sh. 3/ pd 63 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich "0/. sls. '204 pd It 25,000 London and Birmingham ...1001. sh. 90/. pd 170 Ditto Quarter Shares 5/. pd 2 I 20,000 - Ditto ditto New 14,000 London and Croydon Trunk 20/ sh. 201. pd 16 6,000 Ditto New Scrip 12,000 13,000 Manchester and Leeds lOO/. sh. 30/. pal 473 10,000 Manchester and Birmingham...7o/. sh. 71. p 2 73 North Midland 100/. sh. 45/. psi 48 Northe'u and Eastern 100/. sh. 15/. pd 2,600 Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 30/. pd 36 28,000 1,000 10/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO/. sh. 240 9,000 1,400 Westminster and Greenwich 50/. sh. 2/. pd 03 6,000 York and North Midland ...50 . sh. 121, pd 11 MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 5/. oh. 31/. pa 12 4,000 1/. ss. Allen 15/. sh. 121. lOs pd 12 10,000 .... Anglo Mexican, iss. 5/. pm.... 100/. sh. all pd 3 Ditto Subscription e 5/. pa 4 2,000 101. Bolanos 10,000 11. lOs Brazilian Imp. iss. 51. pm 35/. sh. 20/ pd 20 6,000 Macaubas & Cocaes United ?5l. sh. 2°/. pd 10 11,600 Ditto St. John Del Rey 20/. sh. Ile,pd 6 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company,...... 01. sh. '2O/. pd 5 10,000 ......... Ditto Scrip.... 10/. sh. 10/. pd 10 20,000 British Iron 5O/. sh. 511/ pd 93 6,000 British Copper 5/. sh. 0,/. pd 11 Cata Branca 7 6 1 5 / L . p " d i Candonga l O- 10,000 11 Copiapo 2Ol. sh 123/ pd 9 8,500 ... Columbian, iss. 5/. pm. 2,850 31. English 12/ 10s. pd 7 20,000 General Mining Association...2o/. sh. 1(1?. pd 9 6,155 Mexican Company 1001. sh. 5531. pd 5 3,000 Polherou Consols._ lO/. A. Si. pd 4s. 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered II * Ditto Loan Notes 100/. pd 160 30.000 Unites) Mexican, his. 2 pm. ....401. sh. all pd ei Dittt. Scrip 4 Ditto New Scrip O/ nil 4 West Cork 501. sh. 50/. pd 38 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. sh. 19 1,500 London University 100/. sh. all pd 231 700 King' College i t A s r l h a l l S A ia C m n E e A L r g i L e r a A i n c N ti L l E t a t O i n r ( a U i l. C S ... o . m lT a L n s y li 2 1 t 2 ; 0 3 / 1 1 ... p p _ p d a d 1 4 2 5 1 6 3 10,000 6,001 4/. pe l r ss c ' ent. B A r u it s 10,000 61. per cent. Canada Company 1001. sh. 281. pd 19 200,000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan 000 I/. (is. G Ci e t n y e ß ra o l n S d team 4 p N er av ce ig n a t tion ...151. oh. 14/. pd 12090491 20, 101. per cent. cHaucudst Londonc o i n K i c s u oc ß m a c y . 0 sk:F S at t upLle o elar c ai ond k ßnsydto so Companyoin 5.. . 5 Av. 75/. oh. 19 sh. 123/. pd I) 2,000 11. 8,8(0 50 2 0; 5 00 1 / . 51. per cent. rusir cu nnLasorway Brunswick 100/. sh. 2l l .s o s° o l l : . ; pd Pil 1313 21 2,81 - 1 5/. per cent. Ditto New 4,1 ( 0 ... Thames Tunnel 100/. sh. 70/. pd 95 10,000 6s. Van Die nee's Land 5O/. sh. all pd 6 1001. sh. 171. pd 11 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, JULY 2, 1838. BANKS. 1,500,0001. 61. p. ct. Ban of Scotland 831.65. Bd. sh, all pd 1931. 2,000,00(•1. 5f p. ct. /tort of Scotland 100/. sh. all pd 164/, 500.000/. Bp. ct. Br.cish Linen Company 1001.8 h. rill pc! 240/. 3,000,0004 61. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 100/. pd 180/. 5 .000,0001. sn. ct. National lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 104 2,000,0001. 61 p. ct. Glasgow Union 2501. sh. 50!. pd 83/, 1,000,003/. 4 p. ct. Western of Scotland 2001. sh 301. pd 56/. INSURANCE COMPANIES, 25G,0005h. fii p. ct. Scottish Union 201. sh. 1/. pd 275. 7,500 tfj p. ct. Hercules 1001. sh. lOL pd 191 15s. 100,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland ....101._sh, all pd 8115 s. 50,000 6 j). ct. North British .2001. sh. 10/. lid 184 1,000 sp. ct. Caledonian Fire 1001. sh. 10/. pd 1910 s 5,000 6p. ct. Edinburgh Life 100/. sh. 104 pd 14110 s 100,000 al p. ct. West of Scotland.—.... lOl. pd 7i Os MISCELLANEOUS. 4,810 ..... Edin. and Was. Un. Canal 501. sh. all pd 22/. Ditto Allocated 961. sh. all pd 651. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stack Water 251. sh. all pd 881., Carron Iron Company 250/. sh. all pd 44/. ,000 sh 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundery 501 . sh 381. pd 516 . 10,060 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 2Ol. sh. 16/. pd 81. 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gac 251. sh. all pd 611. 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas 251. sh. all pd 750 71 per cent. Leith Coal Gas 20/. sh. all pd 43/ 1,200 ...... Edinburgh end Dalkeith Re:way...soZ. sh 000 5 per cent. Equitable Loan Com party,„• l .s/, 6h. pd 11/, WHALES IN SUTHERLAND• The bay of Golspie was on Wednesday, the Ist instant, visited by several sea animals whose " Delights Were dolphin like ; they showed their backs above The element they liv'd in." The upward jets of water which marked their progress, along the sh ore , i n di ca t e d th a t th ese pl a yful monsters of the deep were of the whale tribe. During the night time they approached the mouth of the Little Ferry, or the Es tuary of the Fleet, when the ferrymen with a few other hands boldly ventured out in a small boat to eudeavour to drive them ashore. They speedily found their boat sur: rounded by several large fish, whose uncouth gambols an d formidable tails threatened them with instant destruction, while the constant descent of a great many waterspouts thoroughly drenched the adventurers, and would in a short time have filled their boat with water. The boat, however, was rowed close to one large fish which appeared to b e the leader or conductor of the others, and while passing him, one of the men succeeded in giving him a deep wound wit h a hatchet across the head, and di r e c tly th ro ugh one °f his eyes. The huge animal instantly dived downwards leaving his solid and semilunar tail up above the water for a few seconds, during which short time the boatmen adroitlY threw the noose of a rope over the tail ; and the other end of the rope being fastened on board, the boat was in stantly dragged along bounding and bowling after the fish in a very violent and rapid manner, and was nearly pulled under water at every desperate plunge of t uc , wounded animal. " Merrily, merrily bounds the bark!: and that too in a most mysterious manner, without sal': wind, or tide, thought an individual who happened to °°- serve the boat from a distance, and who could not con.i° ° ; ture the cause of the very irregular leaps and railway spe e ', of a small boat on still water : but fortunately the concea lea conductor did not proceed seaward, but went up the c tuary, and proved to be a true illascullus Cetorum dux, all his mates having closely followed him and the boat ft' r about two miles, until they got into a shallow bay, wh ere they ran them s el ves as h ore an d were s p ee dily killed. Th e i r were found to amount to fifty-three in number, and all them were secured except one which the tide carried ° after it was dead. These animals are of the Ambidentate order of cetaces' with teeth in both jaws, and are a variety or rather speci es of the genus Delphinia, whi c h h as no t hith er t o b e en 3 ' . nutely described by naturalists from actual exam ination but they are known in the Orkney I s lands by the loc al name of "'The Ca'ing Whale," and probably are the son ic as those which are elsewhere called the bottle-nose wha le ' Some writers have supposed them to be merely a variety ° ` the grampus (Delpkinus circa) ; but Mr. Neill, in his Orke. ney Tour, considers " th e C a 'ing Wh a l e " t o b e a distin ct species ; and, judging from those now seen in the Littl e r Ferry, it differs essentially from the grampus in the number and shape of the teeth, in the ab s ence o f a project . snout, in the moderate length of the dor sa l fi n , and in he length and narrowness of the swimming paws, and also i° the absence of large white spots behind the eyes ; and sit': gether these whales resemble more closely than any other: we have seen figured, the Delphinus deductor in ‘, scoresbss Arctic Regions." The animal to which the boat was fa st " ened, and which was followed as a leader by the other s ' proved to be the largest of them all. His extreme was 20 feet 6 in c h es ; an d th e c i rcum f erence o f his b°,",,), where thickest, a b ou t 12 f eet . Th e d orsa l fi n 26 inc Fig in length, with a tapering, point 9 inches lo nge r, and " ' fin was placed 5 feet 10 inches back from the rounded e s ' tremity of the head. The swimming paws were 13 inche s wide at their root, and tapered with one obtuse bend t°: point, and to the length of 5 feet. The opening of th a, mouth extended on the ou t s id e 14 i nc h es i nto th e he 4; and each jaw had 24 sh ar p t eet h ; b ut as t h e sma ller any mals had only 20 teeth in each jaw, while a few very 3' °U i ones had none, th e num b er o f teet h seems to be regniat—,, by the age of the animal. The tongue was without on' papillary protuberances as often appear in the graniP n , g ' but it was bluntly serrated on the edges, and seemed to I formed of fat and soft muscle. The eve was oblong nn a very small, and no t f ar f rom t h e ang l e o f t h e mout h ; o „ the blow-hole pl ace d f ar b ac k on t h e top o f t h e h ea d. 1 - 1 , 0 1 " whole colour of the animal was black, with a whitish tin , ' along the belly, which ended in a gracefully curved ii° 3 below the neck DR. DUPUYTREN'S WILL. In 1834, Dr. Dupuytren made a will, of which the fel; lowing is a remarkable extract :—" This is my will. I Wa er horn in 1777— 50 l am now i n my 57 t h year . 1-lowe' . ,, the pains under which I suffer, and which are not the suit of any excess—unless it be excess of labour ---C" make me feel the necessity of disposing of everything 4 possess. All lam about t o b equeat h i s th e produce, u o my labour—purely hone s t l a b our — w hi c h can give rise no indeas but those of the value of order and perseveranea free from parsimony. These ideas I strongly recommell, to my dear children, the Count de Beaumont, and 0 , n3j ,, dear little Ad e li ne D upuytren , as we ll as to the obi ea born and to be born from them, for order and perse ver ! nee constitute a great pow er . I d ec l are them (the C o unt an d Adeline) to be my universal leatees : I Cave each of t he- ' at the tim e o f th e i r marriage, a s portion of one million forteg_ producing eac h 50 , 000 francs income ; I now bequeath tau' each two millions more, to be derived from my person property. I thi n k t h ey wou l d do wel l to expend ley money in th e p urc h ase o f patr i mon i al estates, an d as L" havee child ren now, and heaven still promises to bless the"',, with more, I would advise them, if they wish to keep the nobl e name o f B eaumont, which they at present repre, sent, never to spend more than one half of their incl e cl and to f orm a reserve fund with the other half sa;lie annually." Af ter l eav i ng cons i derable legacies to Puj„ institutions and men of science, the Doctor say s ' recommend to m y h e i rs my f a i t hf u l , devote d , and a 0 telligent servant, named Gillies, to whom I lea ve his annuity of 1,000 francs," and he thus concludes Mr. will :---" I cannot offer anything flattering to i t Rothschild, unless, perhaps, it be a mark of confiden ce ' consequent!y, appoint him my testamentary executo r ' leave my body to Messrs. Broussais and Cruveilher tO opened by them, if they think proper." CAPT. ALEXANDER'S NEW TRAVELS IN l gr. INTERIOR OF AFRICA,-We are reque s t e d to state thuiajt Colburn, of Great M ar lb orough -street, has this day lin".,,sverf. Capt. Alexander' s N arrat i ve of the Expedition of Dis co into the Inte r i or o f Af r i ca i n 1837, through the countri-Jer the Great N amaquas, B oschmans, and Hill Damarsis, u po .l the Auspi ces o f t h e B r i t i sh Government, in 2 vols., po st with map and numerous illustrations, 21s. Mr. Colbl lol also publish on Monday next, Lord Lindsay's Lett ers w itO Egypt, Edom, and the Holy Land, in 2 vols. small Bvo. , illustrations. T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, &c., 47, ` - ' ° ,„ l3 'pie' London ( S even D oors from Gracechurch-street ), informs the r n ,,'W that he offe rs SILV ER WATCHES on the celebrated PA' , t tel l ' L EVER CONSTRUCTION the most accurate on which 'A ifte can be made), for SIX GUINEAS EACH, with the 1 -a tes bolt 4 ' provements, e. the d e t ac h e d escapement, jewelled in iour, pit!' capped, ha n d to mark the seconds, hard enamelled dial, and ela al ing power to continue goinr , while winding up. bi d N.B.—lf i n Hunting b Cases, 10s. 6d. ex t ra . Watches purchased in exchange. BIRTHS. On the 15th inQt., at Yolk-terrace, Regent's-F,rk, the la Major F. Hope, 72d Regiment, of a daughter of . flop. „mgt. .. o r' On the 12th i ns t., at 'Woolwich, th e l a d y o f Captain A e ste the Royal Artillery, of a daughter. " IP oOn the 13th inst., at Cossington, SomeXsetshire, the la-J r 01 B. Lennard, Esq., of a son. On the 15th inst. , in Devon s h're-strett, Mrs. Keith 1 3 a1 - ~,e9r a son. Of the. At the Vicarage, Halmwen, on the 14th in s t., the w-- if e Rev.daughter. At Little Hampton,a on the 16th inst., the Hon. Mrs. Tr°lt ed. of a son. On the cil A gs' On the 11th inst., Mrs. James Rocrers, of Manchester-bo il of twins, s l4th urviv insting tllei in Albionbur birth t a short time. c / Job° ~ -street, Hyde-p ar k, the lady 1 K. Kinsman, E sq ., o f a 50n._,,,,. 0 1 MARRIED. Ib , .11 On the ith inst., at o.fenbaeh, ,llr. George K. Sm 1 joer Highgate, to Miss E. Cocking, eldest daughtvr of the latc Cocking, Esq., of Ramsgate. llia °s' .tt On the 14th i nst., at Llanbadarn Vawr, Theodore —7,11I01" Esq. ? of Edi n b urgh, to Mary Anne, eldest daughter of the 13' David Williams, of Y -.—• . . _ ~,hte . ..,, of _stradmeirie, Cardiganshire. h F' — or On the 15th inst., at St. Peter's Chapel, Hamrnersroit si gl, l ,. Ferdinand° Espinosa, Esq., only son of P. F. Espine 33 % pr 0f,,, Port Spain, Trinidad, to Clara Harriett, youngest daw n C 3l ' W. C. Perfect, of the Terrace, Hammersmith, and late ° Of swell lIons:•, Berks. Escl''' On the 15th in s t., a t B oyton, Wilts, George Pinchin, 4 fAl° . the Gra:ige, Bermondsey, to Eli za b eth, second daughter u _., brose Patient, Esq., of Cotton i n the same county. ___,....."- DIED. Ole i'' On the 4th inst., at Broadstairs, Charles, on'y ssonaf of. ~ C. James, late of the Scots Greys. On the sth inst., James Butter, Esq , of K e nninghsA, sorrel " anl formerly of Rich mon d, Surrey. . , joo eS, On the 7th inst., a t Ob an, in Argyleshire, the tier. t''' D.D., Rector of E xe t er C o l lege, Oxford. vi ,, stree t, On the 14th inst., aged 79, Mori Icing, Esq., of • '' °- ol i n gr Morris mg, army agent. On the 14th inst., at Guilsbarough. No-..thampt oosll i ire ,' IPI beth, youngest daughter of the late Re% Joshua Wi4' e ,', r ,: c tor 9 formerly Fellow of Christ's Colleg e , '. Cambridge, amt. s''` Clipstone, Northamptonshire. On the 14th inst., in the Isle of Wight, Robert 11 ' 31117 ' 9 d f °4l.' aged 81. f G e o , At Brighton, on tho 15th • daughter o f On !list., Anna, second ard' Field, Esq. Ble b On the 15th !list. • sr; ltle Hawkins, aged 73. daughter of the ' Inrietta, c . tr ., At Baddeslev , "I' .7 t. , . nten on the 14th inst., Hen c , t A Cas - le.st .eet, Oxford - street, Mr. Iv ce aged 73. lat e Edwb 9 r,t Feri o rs, Esq., and Lady liar" j el , ! 1 F e err i eri, late . 0 1 On th 2, 56th ult. , at S h Ann. re lict oi. the al 61 ranitnn , Ben. ~I rn ~ out i ~ ~ - , i .. pain, .i.t.sq., of the Hon. East India Company's r .;'<. 1 f'a -- • L 0 ) London: P rinted and Published b • MURDO YOUi` au ° 112, St ran d , at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand , in tbei. of A liddlesex.--Saturday, August 18, 1838.